Held June 17-19 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the larger Circuit Ground Stage featured a massive 240,000 square foot arena-style stage with surrounding structures and accommodated twice as many people as previous years.
The 360-degree immersive design featured huge LED screen-topped structures, towers and bridges, along with the lighting and video to support it, the creation of production and lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting.
Hundreds of Elation Professional Colour Chorus 72 LED batten wash lights, Cuepix Blinder WW2 white light blinders and Opti Tri 30 RGB PAR lights were used to enhance the mammoth setup during the three-day festival. This was EDM on a grand scale and Lieberman placed lighting on almost every available space.
AG Production Services provided the structure and full technical package for the EDC 20 Circuit Grounds stage, which, because of its increased size, basically doubled as a second main stage and hosted top acts like Party Favor, Adventure Club, Martin Garrix and Above & Beyond.
Some 292 Colour Chorus 72 batten wash lights, a 6-foot LED strip light with 288x 3W RGBA LEDs, were mounted around all of the LED screens, as well as across eight bridges that connected each of eight towers to the main stage. All of the Colour Chorus strips were run in 49 channel mode so that designers could have maximum control and create running effects.
(Jim Evans)
